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Music in College
Psalter Themes for Peace
St John's College Chapel
February 13, 2026 8:00 PM
The Common Good Programme
The Rev’d Natasha Beckles – What is Truth?
St John's College Chapel
February 15, 2026 6:30 PM
Music in College
Zoe Rahman Trio – Jazz at John's
Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School
February 15, 2026 7:00 PM
Music in College
Old Divinity School Late: Dvorak
Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School
February 16, 2026 8:30 PM
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Latest news

Two people walk through Eagle Gate, New Court, St John's College on to the College Backs in summer time
Early-career authors and poets offered £20,700 for year abroad to write

The prestigious St John’s College Harper-Wood Award 2026-2027 opens to support emerging creative writers

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A photo of Professor David R Midgley in his office with his new book, The Epic Modernist: Alfred Döblin
The novelist modernism left behind and the Cambridge scholar bringing him back

A new book argues that Alfred Döblin was one of the boldest writers of the 20th century and yet the English-speaking world is largely unaware of him

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Professor Andrew Woods sits on a bench looking at the camera in the grounds of St John's College, Cambridge
Energy professor identifies ‘huge window of opportunity’ to accelerate net zero progress

“We are throwing away extraordinary amounts of useful energy every day – and we don’t need to,” says Professor Andy Woods FRS, lead author of a major new Royal Society study

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Professor Richard Samworth in The Cloisters at St John's College, Cambridge
St John’s Fellow elected as one of the UK’s strongest mathematical minds

Seven Cambridge researchers, including St John’s statistician Professor Richard Samworth FRS, have been appointed Fellows of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences

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